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Medical 3D printing expert Summer Decker, PhD, professor and vice chair for research and innovation, and director of 3D clinical applications, University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine and Tampa General Hospital, explains what is involved in creating a 3D printiung program in radiology and how it helps patient care.

Pitching the business case for 3D printing labs in radiology

Medical 3D printing expert Summer Decker, PhD, University of South Florida, explains how her lab has helped improve patient care.

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Federal government opens investigation into Change Healthcare cyberattack

Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights wants to know whether hackers captured sensitive patient information during the breach.

Money dollar investments

American College of Radiology issues guidance related to unusual new CPT code

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services now reimburses for code 76145, allowing physicists to contribute monetary value to the care team for their work

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Practice change boosts efficiency for interventional radiology procedures handled outside the OR

The non-operating room use of anesthesia is becoming increasingly popular in institutions that handle a high volume of IR cases.

Around the web

Cardiovascular Business

Medicare drops AUC requirement for advanced imaging, ASNC celebrates

"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

Cardiovascular Business

Cardiology, radiology groups urge insurance provider to rethink imaging policy

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound.

Health IT

wallet purse broke bankrupt

Small practices left vulnerable after Change Healthcare cyberattack, with some considering bankruptcy

Google teams with Bayer to address radiologist burnout via AI

Hospital system data sharing initiative leads to 80% of patients accessing their imaging records

Large language models excel at simplifying radiology reports

Medical image-sharing startup PocketHealth raises $33M in series B financing

Healthcare Management

mergers and acquisitions M&A puzzle

Riverside Radiology Medical Group joins growing independent practice coalition

Highlights from RBMA's 2024 PaRADigm annual meeting in Las Vegas

Radiology and pathology unite to produce $1M in potential revenue enhancements to 1 provider

New CEOs joining Envision Healthcare, Iowa Radiology while top execs exit at GE HealthCare, Flywheel

GPT-4 can detect radiology report errors at the same rate as members of the specialty

Medical Imaging

For almost nine years since the adoption of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) established the requirement for appropriate use criteria (AUC) to receive payment for advanced diagnostic imaging, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) has lobbying Congressional leaders change or repeal AUC mandate. Those efforts have paid off in the 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule, where AUC program has been paused and all of its regulations were rescinded. Photo by Dave Fornell.

Medicare drops AUC requirement for advanced imaging, ASNC celebrates

Bayer, Hologic unite to improve availability of contrast-enhanced mammography

Hologic, university settle lawsuit alleging radiology vendor infringed on mammography patent

Practice must pay $14M after table collapses under patient during imaging exam, jury rules

Semiautonomous AI shows potential to reduce false positives, unnecessary procedures and medical expenses

Patient Care

CDC centers for disease control at HIMSS 2023.

CDC sounds the alarm on key factor keeping women from undergoing mammography

American College of Radiology adds 6 new topics to its influential imaging appropriateness criteria

Increased imaging utilization an ‘underrecognized’ facet of America’s substance use epidemic

Steadily declining mammography screening rates have hit a historic low, new data show

Radiology groups slam UnitedHealthcare decision they say was inspired by ‘science-harvesting mercenaries’

Professional Associations

Linda Wilgus and Jessica Struve RBMA

Radiology Business Management Association names 2 new leaders to replace retiring Bob Still

Radiology Business Management Association names 2 new leaders to replace retiring Bob Still

American College of Radiology lays off 11% of its workforce

Cardiology, radiology groups urge insurance provider to rethink imaging policy

Radiology groups slam UnitedHealthcare decision they say was inspired by ‘science-harvesting mercenaries’

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